Vanderbilt Commodores linebacker Jeffrey Ugochukwu (12) celebrates after knocking off the Alabama Crimson Tide 40-35 at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia threw for 252 yards and two touchdowns because the Commodores shocked top-ranked Alabama, 40-35, at First Financial institution Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.
Pavia linked on 16 of 20 throws, with six going to tight finish Eli Stowers for 113 yards.
Vanderbilt (3-2, 1-1 SEC), a 23 1/2-point underdog in its personal constructing — one populated largely by Alabama followers — jumped out to a 13-0 lead within the recreation’s first 7:57 and by no means trailed.
Jalen Milroe threw for 310 yards with one landing and one interception for Alabama (4-1, 1-1), which earned the No. 1 rating final week after its victory over then-No. 2 Georgia.
No. 3 Ohio State 35, Iowa 7
Jeremiah Smith as soon as once more offered a spotlight catch and Will Howard threw 4 landing passes to assist the Buckeyes beat the Hawkeyes in Huge Ten play in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio State (5-0, 2-0) held a 7-0 lead early within the third quarter when Smith made a one-handed catch in the long run zone for a 4-yard landing. The rating got here one play after his 53-yard catch on a throw by Will Howard. Smith had 4 catches for 89 yards and Emeka Egbuka had 9 grabs for 71 yards and three scores. Howard was 21-of-25 passing for 209 yards and an interception.
In the meantime, the Buckeyes protection compelled Iowa QB Cade McNamara into two fumbles and an interception. He was 14-of-20 passing for 98 yards. Operating again Kaleb Johnson, who had a career-high 206 yards in opposition to Minnesota on Sept. 21, was restricted to 19 yards on eight carries within the first half for the Hawkeyes (3-2, 1-1). He had a 28-yard TD run to make it 35-7 within the fourth quarter and completed with 86 yards on 15 carries.
Arkansas 19, No. 4 Tennessee 14
Backup quarterback Malachi Singleton scored on an 11-yard keeper with 1:17 remaining to carry the Razorbacks to an upset of the Volunteers in Fayetteville, Ark.
Singleton changed injured starter Taylen Inexperienced and capped a four-play, 59-yard drive along with his scoring run. Braylen Russell had runs of 24 and 11 yards on the drive for Arkansas (4-2, 2-1 SEC). Tennessee reached the Arkansas 20-yard line on its last-ditch drive, however after not discovering an open receiver on a fourth-and-5, quarterback Nico Iamaleava scrambled and was knocked out of bounds a yard wanting the first-down marker.
Iamaleava accomplished 17 of 29 passes for 158 yards for the Volunteers, who led the nation in scoring at 54 factors per recreation getting into the competition. Dylan Sampson rushed for 138 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries for Tennessee (4-1, 1-1).
No. 5 Georgia 31, Auburn 13
Carson Beck accomplished 23 of 29 passes for 240 yards and a pair of touchdowns because the Bulldogs topped the visiting Tigers.
Trevor Etienne rushed for a team-high 88 yards and two scores, serving to Georgia (4-1, 2-1 SEC) bounce again from final week’s loss to then-No. 4 Alabama.
Payton Thorne accomplished 16 of 27 passes for 200 yards, as Auburn (2-4, 0-3) dropped its third straight recreation and eighth straight in opposition to the Bulldogs. Jarquez Hunter rushed for a game-high 91 yards, including a rating on the bottom. KeAndre Lambert-Smith tallied seven catches for 95 yards for the Tigers, who by no means led.
No. 7 Penn State 27, UCLA 11
Drew Allar handed for a landing and ran for an additional, and the Nittany Lions cruised previous the visiting Bruins in State School, Pa. The Nittany Lions (5-0, 2-0 Huge Ten) began sluggish offensively for the second consecutive week of league play. However after nearly 25 minutes of a scoreless stalemate, Allar broke by means of with a goal-line landing carry within the second quarter.
His rating capped a 16-play, 82-yard drive that consumed 8:36. Penn State tacked on one other landing simply earlier than halftime. Allar linked with Tyler Warren on a 5-yard TD catch with 20 seconds on the clock. Allar’s 237 yards on 17-of-24 passing buoyed the offense.
Quarterback Justyn Martin, making his first faculty begin rather than an injured Ethan Garbers, went 22-of-30 passing for 167 yards and threw a 1-yard landing to Logan Loya for UCLA (1-4, 0-3).
No. 8 Miami 39, Cal 38
Cam Ward threw a 5-yard landing go to Elijah Arroyo with 26 seconds left and the Hurricanes recovered from a 25-point, third-quarter deficit to beat the Bears in Berkley, Calif.
Ward accomplished 35 of 53 passes for a season-best 437 yards, together with two touchdowns and one interception for Miami (6-0, 2-0 ACC), which scored 21 unanswered factors within the ultimate 10:28. Mark Fletcher Jr. and Damien Martinez rushed for scores earlier than the fourth quarter, Xavier Restrepo caught seven passes for 163 yards, and Isaiah Horton had 9 catches for 83 yards and the primary of the ultimate three touchdowns for Miami.
Francisco Mauigoa intercepted a go from Cal quarterback Fernando Mendoza with 5 seconds left to seal it. Mendoza, a local of Miami, accomplished 11 of twenty-two passes for 285 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for the Golden Bears (3-2, 0-2).
No. 25 Texas A&M 41, No. 9 Missouri 10
Le’Veon Moss rushed for 138 yards and three touchdowns and Conner Weigman threw for 276 yards because the Aggies dismantled the Tigers in Bryan-School Station, Texas.
Texas A&M (5-1, 3-0 SEC) amassed 512 whole yards, together with 236 on the bottom, in profitable their fifth straight recreation. Their protection had six sacks, together with 1 1/2 by Nic Scourton, and restricted Missouri (4-1, 1-1) to 79 yards within the first half and 254 for the sport. The Aggies had seven performs that went for greater than 20 yards, together with a 75-yard burst by Moss that widened the blowout to 31-0 on the primary play from scrimmage within the third quarter.
Brady Prepare dinner, who threw for at the least 226 yards in every of the Tigers’ first 4 video games, managed 186 yards on 13-of-31 passing. An enormous chunk of these yards got here on a 59-yard landing strike to Theo Wease with 5:06 left within the third quarter.
Washington 27, No. 10 Michigan 17
Jonah Coleman scored on a 1-yard dive with 6:22 remaining because the Huskies topped the Wolverines in Seattle in a rematch of final season’s School Soccer Playoff championship recreation.
Will Rogers was 21-of-31 passing for 271 yards, two touchdowns and one interception for the Huskies (4-2, 2-1 Huge Ten), who scored the sport’s ultimate 13 factors almost 9 months after a 34-13 loss to the Wolverines within the title recreation on Jan. 8 in Houston. Coleman rushed 18 instances for 80 yards.
The Wolverines (4-2, 2-1) rallied from a 14-point, first-half deficit behind backup quarterback Jack Tuttle. However Tuttle was stripped of the ball on a 1-yard run by Voi Tunuufi with 8:02 remaining. The Huskies’ Logan Sagapolu recovered at Michigan’s 32-yard line to arrange the go-ahead drive.
Minnesota 24, No. 11 USC 17
Quarterback Max Brosmer punched within the third of his three speeding touchdowns with 56 seconds left within the recreation and the Golden Gophers held on to upset the visiting Trojans in Minneapolis.
USC (3-2, 1-2 Huge Ten) drove again down the sector in an effort to tie the rating, however Koi Perch sealed the win by out-jumping 6-foot-6 Trojans receiver Duce Robinson in the long run zone to intercept Miller Moss’ deep ball thrown into double protection.
Minnesota (3-3, 1-2) restricted Moss to 200 yards on 23-of-38 passing and picked off the USC quarterback twice. Darius Taylor completed with 144 yards on 25 carries and caught a team-high 5 passes for 56 yards within the win.
No. 12 Mississippi 27, South Carolina 3
Defensive sort out JJ Pegues rumbled for 2 speeding touchdowns, and the Rebels rolled previous the Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C.
After shedding 20-17 final week at dwelling to Kentucky, the Rebels (5-1, 1-1 SEC) bought again on monitor behind a trio of first-half speeding TDs, two by Pegues and one by Henry Parrish Jr., who notched 81 yards on 21 carries and his team-leading ninth rating.
In shedding to a ranked staff for the seventh straight time, the Gamecocks (3-2, 1-2) noticed LaNorris Sellers return after lacking a recreation. He went 20-of-32 for 162 yards with an interception.
No. 15 Clemson 29, Florida State 13
Cade Klubnik threw for 235 yards and two touchdowns and Phil Mafah ran for 154 yards on 25 carries to guide the Tigers previous the Seminoles in Tallahassee, Fla.
Clemson (4-1, 3-0 ACC) defeated Florida State (1-5, 1-4) for the eighth time previously 9 conferences and fourth consecutive time on the street.
Seminoles quarterback Brock Glenn made his first begin of the season in aid of injured starter DJ Uiagalelei. Glenn accomplished 23 of 41 passes for 228 yards and threw two landing passes and an interception.
No. 16 Iowa State 43, Baylor 21
Rocco Becht accomplished 16 of 25 passes for 277 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, and the Cyclones completed robust to beat the Bears in a Huge 12 Convention matchup in Ames, Iowa.
Jaylon Jackson completed with 15 carries for 107 yards and two touchdowns for Iowa State (5-0, 2-0), which has received its first 5 video games of the season for the primary time since 1980. Jayden Higgins had eight catches for 116 yards and a landing, and Benjamin Brahmer additionally caught a landing go.
Sawyer Robertson accomplished 25 of 44 passes for 258 yards, three touchdowns and one interception for Baylor (2-4, 0-3). Ketron Jackson Jr., Michael Trigg and Josh Cameron hauled in a single landing go apiece for the Bears.
No. 21 Boise State 62, Utah State 30
Ashton Jeanty scored the primary of his three touchdowns on his first contact en path to his fifth straight 100-yard recreation, carrying the Broncos to a conference-opening blowout of the Aggies in Boise, Idaho.
Nearly a four-touchdown favourite, Boise State (4-1, 1-0 in Mountain West) additionally received for the third straight time behind a robust begin from quarterback Maddux Madsen. He accomplished 21 of 25 passes for 256 yards and three scores, two to Austin Bolt and one to Cameron Camper.
Getting into the sport with the A hundred and fifteenth-ranked speeding protection (196.8 yards per recreation), Utah State (1-4, 0-1) fell behind by 32 factors at halftime and dropped its fourth straight recreation.
SMU 34, No. 22 Louisville 27
LJ Johnson’s 1-yard landing run with 6:39 remaining within the fourth quarter lifted the visiting Mustangs to the win over the Cardinals in an Atlantic Coast Convention recreation.
SMU (5-1, 2-0 ACC) drove 89 yards in 11 performs for the profitable rating. Quarterback Kevin Jennings, who accounted for 394 whole yards, transformed a key third down with a 6-yard run. Jennings hit 21 of 27 passes for 281 yards and added 113 yards on the bottom.
Louisville’s final possession ended when Isaiah Nwokobia intercepted quarterback Tyler Shough’s go in the long run zone with 2:29 remaining. Shough accomplished 22 of 35 passes for 329 yards with two touchdowns and the late choose. Ja’Corey Brooks had three catches for 121 yards and Ahmari Huggins-Bruce had 5 grabs for 82 yards for the Cardinals. Isaac Brown rushed for 117 yards for Louisville, which fell to 3-2 general and 1-1 within the ACC.
No. 23 Indiana 41, Northwestern 24
Kurtis Rourke handed for 380 yards and three touchdowns and Elijah Sarratt had seven receptions for 135 yards to spice up the Hoosiers to victory vs. the Wildcats in Evanston, Unwell.
Indiana (6-0, 3-0 Huge Ten) turned bowl-eligible whereas securing this system’s first 6-0 begin for the reason that 1967 Hoosiers started their season 8-0. After a turnover on downs and punt on their first two possessions, the Hoosiers discovered their offensive groove, scoring on their subsequent seven possessions. Rourke was 25 of 33 by means of the air. Ke’Shawn Williams added 4 receptions for 87 yards. Justice Ellison rushed for 68 yards, and Ty Son Lawton added 52 speeding yards and a TD for the Hoosiers.
Indiana wanted the firepower to carry off the Wildcats, who had 336 whole yards after managing simply 112 in a 24-5 loss at Washington on Sept. 21. Northwestern (2-3, 0-2) lower its 14-point deficit in half with 3:13 remaining within the third quarter on the primary of two TD passes from Jack Lausch to A.J. Henning. Lausch was 23 of 38 for 243 yards and two touchdowns for the Wildcats. Bryce Kirtz had 10 receptions for 128 yards, whereas Henning made six catches for 67 yards and two TDs.
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